Join us for the Game Zone session at the Edward Jones Family YMCA.

Calling all aspiring Pokémon Trainers! Learn the game, refine your math skills, and ignite your competitive spirit! Campers will receive a 60-card booster deck and gameplay mat.

Join us at the 2024 Shrewsbury Summer Camp.

Calling all aspiring Pokémon Trainers! Learn the game, refine your math skills, and ignite your competitive spirit! Campers will receive a 60-card booster deck and gameplay mat.

Ages 5-13. We have teamed up with Balls-n-Strikes to offer youth baseball and softball camps! Their staff of certified instructors guide you through a camp week that wull be loaded with drills, skills, and non-stop action!

Create an ocean in a bottle, learn about chromatography, make rain, pretend to be the different animals in a habitat game and perform other experiments while having fun exploring the world of science!

Come Invent with Us! A confidence-boosting STEM summer camp where kids build creative inventions and lasting friendships. Led by certified local educators, our camps offer new and exciting hands-on activities every year.

Create professional-looking video games. (Campers must have

Game Design and Theory is an introduction and exploration of not only board games but tabletop games of all types and the role these games play in our lives. This course will analyze game fundamentals, everything from dexterity to worker placement to abstract mechanisms.

Chess Camp is a fun way to introduce chess to newcomers of the game as well as deepen the understanding of the game for intermediate players. Whether you are interested in casual or competitive chess, this camp is for you. Pins, forks, skewers, discoveries, sacrifices, and defending against the ATTACK! Understanding the game’s basic fundamentals and scenarios is the goal of this camp. Players are placed in groups according to skill levels to practice strategy and moves while expanding their critical thinking skills, concluding with a fun, in-class tournament. Chess Master Jason Clark and his team will lead this camp. C

Customize your own Minecraft world and mod the classic game in this one-of-a-kind camp.  Learn scripting and logic statements as you create your first mods.  Students will create a wide variety of new elements, gameplay mechanics, and world generating mods to change the way you play Minecraft.  Projects will be available on a password protected Black Rocket website to share with friends and family. Students must have the Java version of Minecraft to take this camp.  Tablet, phone, and game console versions of Minecraft are not compatible.  Returing students can create more advanced projects that build on previous years.

A hands-on experience for students interested in exploring what it takes to create an engaging game, and develop characters and projects in our 3D fabrication studio.

Discover the Lua coding language while designing experiences in ROBLOX®, an online universe where you can create anything you dream of. This class combines game design concepts, coding, and fun! New developers will learn to use Roblox’s Studio software to reimagine the popular game genres with your own custom code! Student-created games will be available on a password-protected Black Rocket website to share with friends and family. Students will work in pairs or teams for most of the program.

In this Black Rocket classic, you will go well beyond the limitations of the traditional 2D game design classes and create an immersive 3D world. Students will learn the physics behind 3D games, explore beginner event scripting, level design, controlling the flow of gameplay, and storytelling. Student projects will be available on a password-protected Black Rocket website to share with friends and family. Projects are only compatible with Windows devices. Students will work in pairs or teams for most of the program.

It’s like Wiffleball... only with a Gruszka “curve.” Learn how to play various types of Wiffleball along with the skills needed to play each position. Hands-on coaching and skill practice will happen each day along with a daily game! Students of all skill levels are welcome to join in for an at bat and no one ever strikes out when having fun with friends at this great backyard game.